July 2008 - Now our babies are arriving let's have a thread to talk about them...

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Hi ladies
I know there are many of us still to pop but thought it would be nice to start a thread that we can come to once the LO's are here

Abbie is 4 weeks and 3 days old today and my due date isn't here yet

Abbie is doing great - eating and sleeping and very content. The feeding was hard going at first as it is very frequent with her being early but I think you actually get used to being tired

Someone (sorry can't remember who) was talking about bottle and bf together and nipple confusion. Well all the times I have bf I have done so exclusively even when it was very difficult - I am stubborn As Abbie was early and lost a good bit of weight the mw advised topping her up with ebm through a syringe. This was tough as I was bf then trying to express only to bf 1 hour later - so I gave her formula to top up. Giving her the milk in a syringe became difficult as they tended to spurt the milk too quickly at times. So I gave her a bottle to top up( Tommee Tippee - closer to nature) and it was great!!

I bf her all day and then top up after bf at night to get a bit longer sleep - it's working - she is putting on weight and no nipple confusion

sorry for huge post - hope you will all come over and join me!!!!!

you all lose. it was 1 minute after I posted that message ! he had been asleep for half hour or so though... so still a result for me! He is really wanting to suck on fingers (when not swaddled obv) so hopefully it will all settle down when he can do so...

wails - WHY WON'T HE TAKE A DUMMY???!!!!

Thanks everyone...think I just let things build up. Can not believe how different Rafferty is compared to my DD. The other sad point of this is that the crying stops you enjoying your baby and I feel he is missing out. Anyway have really appreciated your support. Thanks!!!

mcchesers sorry about your flat - I understand how you must feel be so far away from family... sorry also about your back! Hope it gets better soon. Shame you are so far away as I know a great osteopath.

mummypig thanks for that, I don't have family here but I do have some good friends. My neighbour is great - I think I might have a chat with her, I know she would be happy to help and I have a feeling she may have heard me crying last night. I have also tried omitting things from my diet - a week for coffee, a week for dairy...wine etc. Did not really see any changes.

Rumpel I have booked a session will let you know how it goes.

TJuice thanks for that - my friend was raving about the shopping and artwork in Malmo but did some research and I was a bit confused...

In the midst of a crying baby, I am finding researching holidays a great distraction... love travelling!

I am going to try and get some sleep - have a good weekend everyone! hugs back to everyone!

Afternoon all B asleep in Moses basket other two drawing, have been on fire today done loads round the house inclucing the upstairs ahd a shower and even expressed some milk (trying to biuld up a supply in the freezer). Not too bad a night last night think she was up twice around 2 and 5 ish.

mcchesers - sorry to hear about your flat what about a sling so you can carry him downstairs and have hands for the pram. Lol about your DP and nappy changes, I'm lucky too DP tends to do more of the nappies when he's home, I know he doesn't like it particularly as well as with wee girls you have to clean inside and he hates doing it if they have pooed, right enough after 3 girls he should be used to it. We have to meet up for a coffee one day (would have to be a weekend) will contact you on FB.

CliC - sorry you are feeling so down I'm not surprised, have never had a baby with reflux so don't have any advice for you. The 3 month mark will be around really soon though.

Umlellala - mine won't take a dummy either I have given up, when she finds her fingers she's happy but can't always find them yet, I reckon she may be anotehr thumb sucker I don't know. As mine is not a PFB and the other two are always demanding me sometimes she is left to grizzle in her basket, more times than not she settles herself off in about 5 minutes. Wouldn't leave her to howl but if she's fed and clean it's OK to grizzle.

Ponto and Rumpel - have never thought about putting Mummy to bed thing thats fab, re the beauty parlours as if! Having 2 DDs they have a side each and they are not gentle well DD2 isn't. Ouch and ouch.

mummy2bsoon - I'm afraid I'm not the person to ask about getting a little baby to sleep in a crib, DD1 was 15 months, DD2 12 months before they went into their own beds I was so soft I just let them sleep with me anything for maximum amount of sleep. I rave about bedside cots they are fab, if you have the room may be an option.

It's lovely to have this little place where we can all come and have a moan and a rant, it's not easy having a newborn baby no matter what the MIL says

Sweetkitty, I know what you mean about leaving non-PFB to grizzle... Skyler gets left way more than dd used to (all of ten secs for dd) but he just wakes up!! (Bit peeved cos I thought that was what I did 'wrong' with dd). But yes, he grizzles much much more. And I am not as shot-to-the-core if he cries a bit either...

Dd at Nanna's today so just have the one newborn today! And (so long as I don't expect to get anything done), is LOVELY. PS Ponto, I have lots of games that involve me lying down. Actually think dh is king of them!

I think I am weird in that my second is harder though - don't think Sky is too bad (both not particularly crying babies - although frequent wakers.). Think we were able to 'go with the flow' and sit and read mags/watch telly more the first time... which suits us (liberal, co-sleeping, hippy types )

Sorry Umlellala thought Skylar was a PFB, I think once you have had one you think you know what you are doing then no2 comes along and is completely different to the first, with this one I am am just going with the flow, you keep thinking though wow if she were a PFB it would be SO easy but probably in reality it wouldn't be IYSWIM.

Just spent the last half hour being a "nursery pupil" being bossed about by teacher DD1 but apparently my drawings are bootifol they can drive you to tears in a bad way but also in a good way poor B with two big sisters she will always be bossed about.

cilc i should have mentioned i didnt have ear plugs in i had an ipod thingy so i used to try to comfort my ds3 by singing to him imagine it ds in sling screaming me trying to comfort and singing to music what a ceazy household
but after a few days he actually started to listen to me they love routine and familiar things and sounds

im just so fed up today toll sam to the doctors again thinking he has reflux apparantly he has gastric reflux unsure of the difference
but he saw in there the amount of milk that comes through his nose he was shocked and said it wasnt right at all
he found a lump in his neck and said he needs to be checked for thyroid problems
cut a long story short sam has got to be tube fed
i actually feel like im borrowing samuel and hes going to leave me soon
i knew he was going to have problems but hes very ill i dont really say on here i like to be positive
the doctor said any probs as hes choking a lot now and ring 999 asap
hes quite limp no facial expressions cant hear me i feel so so pathetic i cant do nothin
i need some be strong vibes today please because if i cry im never going to stop

Hello ladies. So much to catch up on! Hope you are all well. Sorry to hear about the colic cilc. You may remember that Charlie suffered quite badly with it? Well he doesn't at all now. It just stopped one day. Just when I was ready to lose my mind (I was actually really really down about it and not coping well). Suddenly this happy baby has emerged and it's wonderful. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Also, Charlie and I went to craniosacral therapy on Tuesday morning where the practitioner works on mother and baby. I loved it and Charlie loved it too. He laughed for the first time!

disneystar - don't know what to say; wish you could give big cuddles over cyberspace because I think you deserve one.
It must be tough, but remember you don't have to bottle things up on here - we want you to use us to let go of all the bad emotions as well as the good xxxxxxx

disney - bigs hugs from me too. fingers crossed that its not a serious thyroid issue, just a swollen gland or something. you are incredibly strong and positive but i guess sometime you have to let it out too.

we are all here for you and the lovely sam

xoxoxoxo

i am also trying not to think about the whole kidney issue with elodie. but i might go see a specialist at St. George's when i am back in the UK. Its always good to get a second opinion, if you can.

I almost choked elodie just now, giving her the antibiotics. i used the syringe and it kind of shot to the back of her throat and she choked - it was sooooo horrible. bad mum, bad mum!

hi peanut - good to see you back. you sound quite chipper. how is your exercise regime going? I have been powerwalking/jogging twice this week but overcompensated with food, once again . . .

Big hugs to disney Just wanted to repay you disney - your early morning message was such a help! I am very sorry that little samuel is being tube fed. Stay strong and loads of positive vibes to you! Take care of yourself also!

Thanks Peanut - yes you don't really get how stressful it can be until you go through it. The term colic is bandied about and you almost become immune to it. I do remember you mentioning it and also my pathetic response of using infacol, which frankly does very little! I had been doing ok, but last night almost lost my mind! Would be wonderful to see him smile more often. My DD was smiling all the time from 5 weeks...

I am off to craniotherapy next week. I think they only work on the baby - wouldn't mind some myself! Losing our house buyer and the crying have made me a bit stressed... might even book a massage or facial and ask DH to come home early one evening.

Must go Raff is crying again...
ciaox

Oh disney, wish we could give real not just cyber hugs.

Umlella, dummies - Logan was reluctant at first so i did what I did with DS1 - I tap the top of it it very lightly with my forefinger while it's in his mouth. Seems to encourage him to latch on to it.

I've put a pic of Logan on my profile. Think he's looking very handsome!

wat does pfb mean?

disney- hugs, ur so strong....

t-juice wat kidney prob has she got? leah has kidney prob too, leah chokes on it lot.

pfb - precious first born. which is odd, cos they're all precious , bless'em

disney - oh honey don't know what to say, sending you some virtual strength and hugs, you know wee Samuel is a fighter

donutmum - you sure have some handsome boys there, didn't know you were a fellow Scot too

CliC - I don't know when being unsettled becomes colic, B has a hard time between 8-10.30 when she doesn't go to sleep, not hungry just very fussy and whingy. You have my complete sympathy over losing a house buyer happened to us when DD1 was 9 months old and I was pregnant with DD2, only thing was we were also buying a house in Scotland and up there you cannot pull out so you incur fees £1000 a month. We had moved to Scotland were living in my Dads flat, all the fees and the mortgage in London complete nightmare, still we eventually sold (at a lot less than we should have) and it all worked out as I'm sure it will for you too

Good to hear from you too Peanut

hugs and positive healing vibes disneystar

nite all
xxxxxxx

Donutmum Lovely pictures. Did I see from an earlier post that you worked for Barclays? I see you were an HR Manager. Whereabouts? I work for HR in Poole (when not on Mat Leave obviously). Are you taking a career break or have you left?
Disney so sorry that Sam has to be tube fed. Big ((((((((hugs)))))))) to you.
Hi to everyone else. Sorry not too many 'personel' replies but by the time I have caught up with all your chatter, I've forgotten who has said what.
Sorry to those whose children are suffering from colic. Thankfully neither of mine have, but I can appreciate it is debilitating for the LO and very hard on the parents to hear them screaming all the time.
Luke is now 10.4 weeks old and now weighs in at 11lb 12.5oz and he slept until 8am this morning
Off to the Dorchester Show tomorrow. Should be fun with the crap weather we are having. Maybe I'll be like that weird woman on Fake Babies and wash my pram wheels after the day out as I'm sure we'll be waddling through mud. Could be interesting for my Mum just 5 weeks after her hip replacement

Any thoughts on a new thread name as we only have a few posts left on this one. I'm afraid my mind is ablank at this time of night.

Got to be something to do with sleep or lack of

Just weighed B on the Wii Fit it said 11lbs doesn't do ozs

Disney - so sorry, we crossed threads before. I just don't know what to say, you poor, brave woman. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. x

Yes, something about living in the Twilight Zone of never quite enough sleep to be compus mentus.

just popped on to send strong vibes to you disneystar xo hugs xo

hiya libralady, am at Barclays Global Investors in London. Just taking my year mat leave right now before deciding what to do. BGI doesn't have a career break policy. Damn! knew i should have written one when I did the handbook last year lol! What bit of HR are you in?

Hi DM
I work in the most hated department within the company - Redundancy! I've been with B for 20 years so surely my time is up soon
Right better get everybody up as we are off out for the day.
I'll catch you all later.

New thread

here Sorry